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  • Protected: Tipperary to White City: Shanahan Siblings in Chicago

    Protected: Tipperary to White City: Shanahan Siblings in Chicago

    Family Stories

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  • A Voyage Full of Misery: The German New Era

    A Voyage Full of Misery: The German New Era

    September 29, 2024
    Family Stories, Ireland Family
    Bremen, Connecticut, Deal Beach, family-history, Fiedler, German, Hartwick, history, Ireland, New Era, New York, ships, travel

    Frederick Simon Fiedler (1835-1901) Frederick Simon FIEDLER was born on the 8 June 1835, in the small town of Eckartsberga, in the province of Saxony, in what is modern-day central Germany. During Frederick ’s childhood this was part of the Kingdom of Prussia. He was the youngest son of Johann Christian and Emilie FIEDLER. In

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  • Clinton R. Miller Part 2 – Hunting Down the Hustler

    Clinton R. Miller Part 2 – Hunting Down the Hustler

    September 10, 2024
    Family Stories, Miller Family
    Bigamy, Birdman, Counterfeit, Delaware, Georgia, Hartford, Hendricks, Jacksonville, King, Miller, Nellie, Palatka, Pennsylvania, Perjury, Pittsburgh, Redman, Washington DC, Welch, Wilmington

    At first I thought that to tell the story of my great-great grandfather would be to tell a story of a man who just couldn’t be a father, someone who was in and out of my great grandmother’s life, someone our family often described as a “ne’er do well.” While there is always some truth

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  • Tyler/Paul Mothers: The Family  Strength and Stay

    Tyler/Paul Mothers: The Family Strength and Stay

    April 23, 2024
    Family Stories, Paul Family, Redden Family
    ancestry, Bradstreet, family-history, family-tree, genealogy, Glasgow, Gorbals, history, New York, Paul, Pilgrims, Rensselaer, Scotland, Scottish immigrants, Tyler

    Thomas PAUL was raised by a single mother after his father died young – a young Scotch woman who brought her children across the Atlantic on her own, seeking a better life for them. There he met and married a widowed single mother – a woman descended from a long line of New World settlers

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  • Stone Roots in Minnesota: The Franklin Shermans

    Stone Roots in Minnesota: The Franklin Shermans

    April 1, 2024
    Family Stories, Stone Family
    family-history, genealogy, history, Jesse James, local-history, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Northfield, Stone

    This article tells of how the STONE line connects with the SCOTT line. To read about the history of the STONE family, see our story Homesteaders: The Stone Line in the 19th Century. For the story of the SCOTTs and where they came from, see our story Scottish Canadians in the American Midwest – The Scotts. Franklin

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  • Scottish Canadians in the American Midwest – The Scotts

    Scottish Canadians in the American Midwest – The Scotts

    April 1, 2024
    Family Stories, Scott Family, Stone Family
    Canada, history, immigrants, Kenwood, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Montreal, Northfield, Ontario, quebec, Scott, Stone, Toronto

    Robert SCOTT was born on September 13, 1861, the eldest child of Thomas and Elizabeth (McCLENAGHAN) SCOTT. He was likely born in Ormstown, Canada, and was baptized Presbyterian in the Episcopal Church of England and Scotland, on November 21, 1861, in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield.[1] Ormstown is in Quebec, near the Ontario border. This part of Canada on

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  • Snickerdoodles

    March 18, 2024
    Family Recipes
    Connecticut, cookie recipe, New England, recipe, snickerdoodle

    This recipe was the one my mother made, and it is a New England original. Likely of German origin, or perhaps a German-English mashup, this is a sweet cookie, and so fluffy it could be a muffin top. 1 cup butter, softened1 1/2 cups sugar2 eggs1 tsp vanilla2 2/3 cups flour1 tsp cream of tartar1/2

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  • Yams a’la Stone

    March 18, 2024
    Family Recipes
    Holiday recipes, recipe, Stone, sweet potato recipe, Thanksgiving recipes, yam cups, yams recipe

    These are the way Capt. Robert Scott STONE made his sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving and Christmas (and any holiday where you want yummy sweet potatoes, individual serving sizes). These can be topped with marshmallows or maraschino cherries, we prefer the cherries. You can even do a pecan crumble topping – whatever you wish! 6-8 large

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  • Lost Family, Lost History: The Burchard Legacy

    Lost Family, Lost History: The Burchard Legacy

    March 16, 2024
    Burchard Family, Family Stories
    Antietam, Burchard, Civil War, Connecticut, Ireland, New Berne, Schilcher, Underground Railroad, Wilton

    This story is for my father and all of his siblings and cousins, who never knew their maternal grandparents. Now they can. Eli Sanford BIRCHARD/BURCHARD (1830-1862) Eli Sanford BIRCHARD was born in August of 1830 in Fairfield County, Connecticut. He was the second son of Uriah and Julia (HYATT) BIRCHARD.[1] Altogether, the BIRCHARDs had 10

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  • Summer Drink

    March 15, 2024
    Family Recipes
    gin drink, happy hour, Maryland, Mitchell, Oliver, recipe, summer drink

    This is Carolyn OLIVER IREY’s summer drink and it is a delight. It doesn’t have to be summer to enjoy it – it just has to be happy hour! Carolyn’s advice?Drink with silver sippers or nice straw in a tall glass. If you want to put the drink in a short glass, use short drink

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